(n.) One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.
Example Sentences:
(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(4) Although the collection was one of Winehouse's major projects over the past year, it was also part of her narrative of relapse and decline.
(5) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(6) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
(7) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
(8) The review received more than 2,200 documents, the report said, to generate a “narrative” of events.
(9) Narratives of illness in medical records and case presentations in teaching hospitals say surprisingly little about an important matter: what patients understand and feel.
(10) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
(11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(12) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
(13) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
(14) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(15) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
(16) All subjects expressed at least some story content, but only the right hemidecorticate narratives conveyed suggestion and implication as well as explicit statement.
(17) The old narrative is that of segregation, leading to confined form of space and time.
(18) This study examines the use of the co-temporal connectives when, while and as in the elicited narratives of 71 children between 4;10 and 11;11.
(19) He suggested it formed part of a political narrative, justifying Bo's removal because he and his associates were "bad" people.
(20) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.
Storyteller
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(2) Because we're a species of storytellers, we find movie-plot threats uniquely compelling .
(3) Second, the probation officer who had prepared my pre-sentence investigation report – the official version of a defendant’s story – prevented me from participating in the storytelling and then lied to the court, claiming I had refused to contribute.
(4) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
(5) Philip French championed Boyle's career from the outset, describing his debut feature film, Shallow Grave , as "a good piece of storytelling... Hitchcock would have admired its ruthlessness and cruel humour."
(6) That brings us back to games, where this kind of storytelling – some linear narrative but then a lot of additional storytelling coming from non-player characters' dialogue – is par for the course.
(7) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
(8) Pratchett is a very smart man, a gifted writer, and understands as well as any philosopher the power of storytelling and the problems humans face in making sense of their lives and the world they live in,” South said.
(9) "He was also a terrific storyteller whose life had provided no end of material.
(10) There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in True Detective , and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling.
(11) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
(12) Libraries held free storytelling and drop-in face painting sessions to promote the project.
(13) A spokesman for the producers said viewers of the semi-final had seen that winner Jules O’Dwyer’s act involved several dogs who participated alongside Matisse to help perform her “unique mixture of dog agility and storytelling”.
(14) It's a cavalcade of the bizarre that might leave lesser storytellers struggling for clarity.
(15) It’s rainy and people are saying the same things over and over again.” Unlike many other shows on the fringe, which prize storytelling above big laughs, there will be no theme to the show, no confessional narrative or autobiographical arc.
(16) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(17) If all wars ultimately find their own Homer, this brutal, piercing, sometimes darkly funny collection stakes Klay’s claim for consideration as the quintessential storyteller of America’s Iraq conflict,” the judges wrote of the book.
(18) Now shared widely on Isis social media accounts , the letter is part of a storytelling tradition that has developed among militants from Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus , who have travelled to fight in the Middle East.
(19) Creative solutions like co-production can be part of the picture to solve our childcare challenges, but can’t be a substitute for the major reforms to our childcare policy and funding needed to provide the volume of high-quality, affordable places that parents need.” In terms of the practicalities for working parents, Schofield adds that “most parents who choose childcare do work and may not be time-rich in this way.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bruce, who has worked at Grasshoppers for four years, puts his acting background to good use during storytelling time.
(20) "EL James's characters and vivid storytelling require a director who is willing to take risks and push the envelope where needed, and Sam is a natural fit."